If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.

There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.

I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They're bookish homeless people.

You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

A good film is always nourishing. It's not about it being hopeful or bleak; it's about how it touches you, how it moves or stirs you.

Sometimes audiences love you because they get to boo you.